Quotes about Compassion

Of course Jonah is angry. When you haven't forgiven someone who has wronged you and then something good happens to them—when they are blessed or shown mercy or experience favor—it's infuriating.

Give the gift, and surrender the rest.

I felt this new life surging up within me. I don't need people to be anywhere else. I can meet everybody where they are.

When we hear people saying they can't believe in a God who gets angry—yes, they can. How should God react to a child being forced into prostitution? How should God feel about a country starving while warlords hoard the food supply? What kind of God wouldn't get angry at a financial scheme that robs thousands of people of their life savings?

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.